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Dr. John La Puma’s New Book on Culinary Medicine Is Rooted in Santa Barbara Soil
Home Grown
When it is the “pink hour” in Santa Barbara and the sun is slipping away behind Point Conception, he can often be found tending to his champagne vineyard. Read story.
Poet Laureate Charles Simic Shares His Latest Book
That Little Something
UCSB Arts & Lectures and the UCSB Libraries are honored to present the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States, Charles Simic. Read story.
Reclaiming the Erotic
The Family Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara presents Esther Perel at Victoria Hall, Thursday, May 8.
In our post-feminist era, women have come a long way toward achieving equality with men, especially in the realm of romantic relationships. Read story.
Bob Mitchell Releases Once Upon a Fastball, a Novel about Baseball, History, and Life
Not Just Bats and Balls
Two years ago, a new name splashed onto the sports fiction scene with the book Match Made in Heaven. Read story.
Four and a Half Historical Fictions
Last month, Hot Off the Press took a look at the latest in war-themed nonfiction — scholarly tomes brimming with facts, figures, and footnotes. Read story.
Photographer Joel Meyerowitz and His 9/11 Archive, Aftermath
Standing Alone
When the events of September 11, 2001, engulfed New York City, native New Yorker and photographer Joel Meyerowitz was on Cape Cod. Read story.
Leslie Lehr’s New Book on Life After Marriage
Untying the Knot
Leslie Lehr, sister of KEYT anchor Tracy Lehr, takes on the issues that touch everyone: marriage, motherhood, and, now, divorce. Read story.
Surf Legend Gerry Lopez to Speak at UCSB
Mr. Pipeline Goes to College
You wouldn’t expect a lifelong surf addict, let alone one of the most famous and influential surfers of modern times, to blissfully call inland Oregon home, but that’s exactly what Gerry Lopez has been doing for the past 15 years. Read story.
Ojai’s 9th Annual Storytelling Festival
Telling Tales
Some people exaggerate. Some outright lie. But when did you ever hear of someone making a living at it? Read story.
Salman Rushdie to Discuss Enchantment
The Empire Writes Back
There’s something dubious about fiction writers whose major theme is storytelling. Read story.
Red, White, and Better
Pepperdine Prof James Q. Wilson on What Makes America Superior
Pepperdine professor James Q. Wilson on what makes America superior. Read story.
S.B. Photographer Tells the Stories Beneath the Tattoos
Written in Ink
At first glance, UCSB art professor Kip Fulbeck’s latest book, Permanence: Tattoo Portraits, might give the illusion of being simply an art monograph with an ink-on-skin theme. Read story.
Political Satirist Andy Borowitz on Why Politics Is So Damn Funny
Turning Gaffes into Laughs
For more than a decade, Andy Borowitz has made his living as a freelance political satirist, publishing everywhere from the L.A. Times to the New Yorker. Read story.
Winning Poems from the 2008 Young People’s Poetry Contest
Stirring the Senses
A great poem helps resuscitate our sense of wonder. Read story.
Guys and Garages
Part picture book, part anthropological study, Santa Barbara writer/photog Helena Day Breese’s ode to male packratting is nothing short of perfect — at least as far as Father’s Day gift fodder goes. Read story.
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